CISCO-SMON-CAPABILITY

Description: Declares agent capability statements for SMON (Switch Monitoring RMON extension) MIB on Cisco switch platforms.

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CISCO-SMON-CAPABILITY is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES module declaring which parts of the standard SMON-MIB (Switch Monitoring, an RMON extension for switched LAN segments defined in RFC 2613) a given Cisco switch platform implements. It belongs to Cisco's switching/RMON monitoring feature area. It contains only capability declarations — supported object groups and compliance variations of SMON-MIB — with no runtime data of its own. As a conformance module it exposes no hardware or software status objects directly; its role is limited to describing SMON feature support so an NMS knows which switch-monitoring statistics it can rely on. It is entirely dependent on SMON-MIB (RFC 2613) and the underlying RMON framework, and it is used by network management systems during capability discovery against Cisco Catalyst switches supporting SMON-based traffic monitoring. Engineers can download the CISCO-SMON-CAPABILITY file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

CISCO-SMON-CAPABILITY has no sample runtime objects (sample_objects is empty); it is composed of AGENT-CAPABILITIES statements referencing SMON-MIB's object groups per Cisco switch platform. There is no monitoring scenario to invent here — its sole use is a one-time capability check by an NMS to confirm SMON support before enabling switch-port RMON statistics collection.

Agent capabilities for SMON (Switched Port Analyzer) MIB on Cisco switches and routers.